Pinned window: can it skip the taskbar (be non alt-tab'abble)?

[giladbarnea]

Feature Description

Hi,
Thanks for flameshot!

I think that pinned screenshots should skip the taskbar, i.e not be alt-tabb'able.
The rationale is that they're always on top anyway, so one doesn't need to switch to them.
Instead, they take a slot and create extra friction for the user when they switch windows.

The window property that controls this is _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR, just like _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE control always-on-top.
This can be manipulated with xprop / wmctrl:

2022-01-29_14-41-56.mp4

What do you think?

Thanks!
Gilad

[mmahmoudian]

There are already discussions to improve the pinned tool (#2251 #954) and most probably some keyboard shortcuts will be added to the pin tool. When that happens, this would actually make it hard for people who mostly use/rely on keyboard.

[borgmanJeremy]

@giladbarnea do you know if qt has a cross platform wrapper for that API?

[giladbarnea]

@giladbarnea do you know if qt has a cross platform wrapper for that API?

@borgmanJeremy No idea, but if I understand correctly, this thread suggests that child widows don't take up a slot in taskbar, and (this is where I'm not sure) you could create a faux parent window and hide it, thus ending up with one window that skips taskbar?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4055506/qt-hide-taskbar-item

(I googled "qt skip taskbar")